News, weather, papers and sport.
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What Britain is getting up to. Two hours of news and views from home and around the world. Presented by Brian Redhead with LIBBY PURVEE including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day with ESTELLE WHITE
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.30,8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
Read by DAVID markham (8)
2: The Greengrocer and the Pickled-Herring Man Tom Vernon goes to London's East End in search of survivors of the coster-life that Henry Mayhew described 140 years ago in London Labour and the London Poor.
In this, the second of two programmes, he meets
Bob Wheeler who sells vegetables, and Bert Daltrey who has a pickled-herring stall in the Roman Road Market. Producer joy HATWOOD
NEM,P p 50; Breathe on me, breath of God (BBC iib 148); Psalm 86; Matthew 20, vv 1-16 (av); God of grace, and God of glory (BBC BB 391)
The Name of the Game by SHIRLEY BAGRIT
Read by Shirley Dixon
She loved the dryness of the green baize, the click of the chips, the familiar faces. Her friends? What were friends? These were her fellow devotees, each to the table, to himself, to the game.'
Robert Philip explores Mendelssohn's A Midsum. mer Night's Dream.
Story: Wriggly Worm's Unlucky Day by EUGENIE SUMMERFIELD
Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
News, views and advice for the home and family.
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only
Presented by William Davis
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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week:
Jane Lapotaire , actress. Reading Your Letters.
Learning to Live Together: with the help of SISTER MARY KELLY and MOSHE DAVIES , BERNARD JACKSON has been reviewing present-day Jewish-Christian relations.
Play the Game! (a beginners' guide to sport): today RICHARD VAUGHAN asks, 1 Anyone for tennis? ', Palm Court (2)
Keepsake by DAWN LOWE-WATSON
with Sylvia Coleridge as Cecily, Betty Hardy as Annie, Liza Flanagan as Francesca, Philip Sully as Wilf
This photograph. If I stare hard enough I can see the face in the picture. But it isn't his face, not really. Just an impression on a piece of paper. He's lost. Quite lost to me. 1
Cecily lives on her memories - the husband she adored, the money she once had, the lifestyle that is gone forever. And Annie, who has looked after her for years, has a few memories of her own to do with Cecily's husband.
Directed by CHERRY COOKSON
from
Canterbury Cathedral Responses (Ayleward)
Psalm 78 (Turle, Goss, Jacobs)
First Lesson: Jeremiah 8, vv 18-22; 9. w 1-6
Canticles (Moeran in D)
Second Lesson: Matthew 7, w 1-14
Anthem: Turn back, 0 man (Hoist)
A choir of boys and young men drawn from church, school and college choirs affiliated to the ROYAL SCHOOL OF CHURCH music, directed by PHILIP MOORE
Organist GORDON BUSBRIDGE
A Rooted Sorrow (3)
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5.55 Weather; programme news
including Financial Report
Presented by Patrick Fyffe and George Logan With DAPHNE HEARD. PETER WHEELER and MARLENE SIDAWAY
Written by MIKE CRAIG LAWRIE KINSLEY and RON MCDONNELL
Producer JAMES CASEY BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm)
(Repeated; Thurs 1.40 pm)
A recording of a hearing brought before the Manchester Small Claims Court
The Small Claims Courts were established to enable people claiming damages or redress - up to a sum of £ 500 - to meet informally the people against whom they were making their claim, in the pres-. ence of an arbitrator by whose decision both parties have agreed to be bound.
This week:
The Trousers With the Hole in the Bottom
Producers SUSAN SNAILUM ; and PAT TAYLOR
(The recording was made with the permission of the Manchester Arbitration Scheme for Small Claims)
(Repeated: Thurs 10.5 am)
Part of this great jazz pianist's concert recorded in July at the Town Hall in Cheltenham, as part of the 1979 Cheltenham Festival of Music.
'His imagination during his improvisation is dazzling; his virtuosity is guaranteed to turn all other pianists a lovely shade of envy-green, and his taste is impeccable.' Andre Previn
BBC Birmingham
Lynda Marchal describes one of the pleasures of life.
BBC Manchester
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presenter Jacky Gillott Producer CARROLL MOORE
Douglas Stuart reporting
A series of six programmes in which Tony Bilbow takes a look at some of our favourite stereotypes and asks: ' But what's it really like? 2: Cowboys
'The real code of the West was if you shot a fellow and he'd got a gun on him, even if it was nowhere near his hand, that was fair play.'
(ROBIN MAY, historian)
Producer PETER EVERETT BBC Manchester
Phil Smith takes a whimsical look at life. BBC Manchester
An Unfinished Woman (8) long wave only
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A sequence of classical music featuring tonight three English composers, Elgar, Parry and Bax.
Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields conducted by Neville Marriner
(gramophone record)
Wendy Eathorne (soprano) Geoffrey Pratley (piano) and members of the Nash Ensemble
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
